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Visier, provider of a people strategy platform, has closed USD45 million in Series D financing, led by Sorenson Capital with participation from existing investors Foundation Capital, Summit Partners and Adams Street Partners.
This round brings Visier's total funding to USD94.5 million.
Visier is credited with the innovation of applied business analytics – the next generation of business intelligence that answers business leaders' questions in real time, from the cloud, with no dependency on technical resources.
The new capital will help fuel the company's efforts to meet the ever growing demand for its people strategy platform, as well as
Personal data management company Diamond has raised over USD2 million in funding to create a single access point for all cloud-based email, data storage services and personal devices.
The round of funding was led by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale of 8VC (formerly Formation 8) with participation by Cherubic Ventures, Beehive, Partech Ventures, Sway Ventures, Garage VC and Silicon Valley legend Pierre Lamond.
Inspired by JARVIS, the AI-powered assistant in Iron Man, Diamond founder Pierre Arys and head engineer Leander Lee are building a personal layer of secure intelligence that covers all devices and services, including Google Drive, Gmail and
Freetrade, an app-only stockbroker service designed to democratise access to the stock market by offering zero commission on global transactions, has raised GBP1.1 million within 12 days of its second Crowdcube crowd fundraising campaign.
This is over 360 per cent of its GBP300,000 fundraising target.
The funding raised will be used to support the first year of operations.
Freetrade will be launched in 2017 and will be available on iOS, with an Android app to follow later this year.
It offers commission free access to global shares as well as fractional shares, which is a share of equity
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has launched its presence in the Isle of Man.
More than 120 members of the local business community attended an event at Noa Bakehouse on 9 March.
Jon Moulton (pictured), chairman of The International Stock Exchange Group (TISEG), says: “The event was a big success. It was very well supported and there was a great deal of interest in the opportunities that the Exchange offers the Isle of Man.”
Moulton adds: “There are Isle of Man trading companies across a diverse range of industries who may need to access capital to support their
Cyber London (CyLon), the dedicated cyber security accelerator, has announced the eight security start-ups participating in its fifth programme. CyLon has already accelerated 31 companies since its launch in April 2015.
CyLon writes that its cyber security accelerator consists of a three-month programme where entrepreneurial teams with innovative and disruptive business ideas are provided with access to expert training and guidance from an accomplished network of mentors and investors to bring their product to market.
At the end of this programme, the companies will present their businesses to prospective customers, investors and partners at an Investor and Customer focused Demo
Pacific Fund Systems (PFS), a provider of fully integrated fund administration software via its PFS-PAXUS application, has appointed Didier Lucotte as cloud services manager in the firm’s European operations team.
Lucotte, who will based in the group’s Isle of Man office, is an experienced cloud project manager having previously served in this role with a UK listed telecoms company.
His role will encompass bringing the PFS-CLOUD initiative online and subsequently managing new and existing client migration onto the PFS-CLOUD.
As part of the new service PFS will offer its core software products, PFS- PAXUS and PFS-CONNECT via a
Funds advised by Inflexion have completed a minority investment in K2 Partnering Solutions.
A global resourcing specialist, K2 provides outsourced IT consultants to multinational corporations including technology firms in Silicon Valley.
K2 was founded almost 20 years ago by James McHugh. The business’s consultants implement and upgrade SAP and Salesforce software, as well as other emerging technologies such as cyber security, big data and advanced analytics. K2 uses its proprietary database of over 600,000 enterprise software consultants to support client projects across four continents.
Inflexion’s partnership capital solution was attractive to the founder shareholder and his management team
Shore Capital Partners has formed EyeSouth Partners and completed a strategic partnership with Georgia Eye Partners.
Founded in 1999 by Dr Eugene Gabianelli, Georgia Eye is an eye care practice with four locations in the Atlanta, Georgia area. The company offers medical and surgical specialty eye care services, including treatment for cataracts, corneal disease, refractive surgery, glaucoma, and oculoplastics through OPAL Aesthetics.
Shore Capital has partnered with Georgia Eye’s three partner physicians, Dr Eugene Gabianelli, Dr Andrew Feinberg and Dr Parul Khator, who have established a reputation for high quality medical and surgical specialty eye care and lead a
Growth private equity firm TA Associates has completed an investment in Ideal Cures Private Limited, a supplier of ready-to-use coating products and excipients for tablets and capsules to the pharmaceutical and allied industries.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1999 in India, Ideal Cures’ products are used to provide aesthetic coatings as well as functional coatings for tablets and capsules. Aesthetic sugar or film coatings allow for swallowability and taste masking. They also aid brand recognition, authentication and differentiation. Functional coatings serve a number of purposes ranging from moisture, oxygen and light protection of
BlackRock Real Assets, on behalf of clients, has closed a long-term debt financing for Ellevio, the regulated Swedish electricity distribution system operator.
BlackRock says the transaction brings a number of benefits for its institutional clients, including stable, long-term cash flows underpinned by an investment-grade rated issuer in Ellevio, who benefit from fully regulated electricity distribution operations in Sweden.
The transaction also capitalises on BlackRock’s clients’ ability to provide natural, long-term Swedish krona funding.
Jonathan Stevens, head of European infrastructure debt at BlackRock, says: “We are delighted to have closed this debt financing for Ellevio. It is attractive to
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